Leaders Have Vision(TM) Worldwide Partner Conferences Highlight Success

World's Leading High Availability Organizations Convene to Discuss
New Market Trends, Programs and Offerings

IRVINE, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 03/11/08 -- Vision Solutions, the
leading high availability and disaster recovery solutions provider in
IBM Power Systems markets (NYSE: IBM), is hosting global partner
conferences to meet the needs of its ever-expanding partner and
customer bases across the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa,
and Asia Pacific regions.

Demand for Vision Solutions' products and services continues to
outpace industry growth rates. To sustain this trend, the Company is
launching integrated marketing campaigns and customized partner
programs to support its distribution and support initiatives. The
conferences include updates from executive management and product
development, along with extensive training that enables partners to
address the needs of a fast-growing customer base.

"This European conference was truly an invaluable experience," says
Vision Solutions' partner Graham Hope, senior manager of sales for
INFOR. "Vision Solutions has an incredible story and we're excited to
be part of it."

Vision Solutions' products are being adopted by record numbers of
customers in vital worldwide industries from manufacturing and
healthcare to retail and financial services across
small-and-mid-market to large enterprise segments. The needs of these
organizations vary with some desiring relatively simple backup and
recovery solutions to others requiring the greatest levels of high
availability protection spanning multiple continents. Together,
Vision and its partners ensure the viability of businesses with 24/7
certified customer service, and solutions that optimize and extend
IBM's latest Power Systems technologies.

"Our products and services are excellent solutions for companies of
all sizes wanting to protect and manage their data in today's 24/7
marketplace," says Vision Solutions Senior Vice President of EMEA and
Americas Sales, Bob Johnson. "We are deeply committed to helping our
partners and customers become as successful as possible. During these
conferences, we are sharing our latest product innovations and
roadmap, discussing partner opportunities and unveiling exciting
go-to-market initiatives."

To serve the regional needs of more than 400 premier partners, these
first-rate Vision Solutions conferences are being held in Portugal,
Vietnam and the United States.

"These events are not only dynamic for our Company, but also for our
growing worldwide partner community," says Vision Solutions' Vice
President of Sales for Asia Pacific, Allan Campbell. "Together, we are
reaching more people to provide the world's best high availability
and disaster recovery solutions for all of our customers, no matter
their size or location. For example, here in Vietnam, the leading
banks are all long-term Vision customers."

"Together with leaders in the industry like Vision Solutions and
their extensive partner network worldwide, IBM Power Systems is always
searching to complement IBM's offerings in order to bring innovative
solutions to customers of all sizes to meet their ever increasing
needs for business resiliency," says IBM's Director of Power Systems
for Southwest IOT, Alessandro Colonna.

"The world is changing rapidly with competitive and environmental
pressures that can threaten business viability. Vision Solutions
carries a great responsibility to ensure our customers maintain
resilient businesses with the best possible combination of software
and support plus valuable partner services and best practices," says
Vision Solutions Senior Vice President of Marketing, Ed Vesely.
"Vision invests more in service, support and partner enablement than
any other high availability organization in the world. These
conferences enable our loyal partners to quickly adapt to regional
market needs, and provide the highest levels of service to protect
more than 6,000 customers in more than 70 countries."

About Vision Solutions

Vision Solutions, Inc. is the world's leading provider of high
availability, disaster recovery and data management solutions for
IBM(R) System i and System p platforms. With a portfolio spanning the
industry's most innovative and trusted HA solutions from ORION(TM),
MIMIX(R) and iTERA(TM) brands, Vision keeps critical businesses
information continuously protected and available. Affordable and easy
to use, Vision products ensure business continuity, increase
productivity, reduce operating costs and satisfy compliance
requirements. Vision also offers advanced cluster management and
systems management solutions, and support for i5/OS(R), Windows(R),
and AIX(R) operating environments. As IBM's largest high availability
Premier Business Partner (NYSE: IBM), Vision Solutions oversees a
global network of business partners and services and support
professionals to help our customers achieve their business goals.
Privately held by Thoma Cressey Bravo, Inc., Vision Solutions is
headquartered in Irvine, California with offices worldwide. For more
information visit www.visionsolutions.com or call 800.957.4511.

CONTACT:
Debbie Madoni Lewis
1.801.541.7769
debbie.lewis@visionsolutions.com

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